From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262186AbTDUVLu (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2003 17:11:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262196AbTDUVLt (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2003 17:11:49 -0400 Received: from verein.lst.de ([212.34.181.86]:8209 "EHLO verein.lst.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262186AbTDUVLr (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2003 17:11:47 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 23:23:48 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Pavel Roskin Cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.68-bk1 crash in devfs_remove() for defpts files Message-ID: <20030421232348.A30621@lst.de> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Pavel Roskin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20030421195555.A28583@lst.de> <20030421195847.A28684@lst.de> <20030421210020.A29421@lst.de> <20030421215637.A30019@lst.de> <20030421225704.A30489@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from proski@gnu.org on Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 05:15:39PM -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 05:15:39PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > The devfs <-> tty interaction are going to drive me nuts. > > > > TTY_DRIVER_NO_DEVFS actually means don't call tty_register_device > > in tty_register_driver, not don't register with devfs. > > > > Updated patch (replaces the last one): > > The old story again. /dev/pts disappears when /dev/pts/0 is unregistered. > "devfs_remove: no entry for pts!" appears on the next attempt to login by > ssh. And you are sure you have the following line in pty.c: pts_driver[i].flags |= TTY_DRIVER_NO_DEVFS; ?